Firstly, thanks to Jim Moray for the link to his cartoon. Very apt!
Mike...You ask me to cool it, very well, I will. as soon as I am not insulted by people who know nothing as regards sound engineering stop denigrating my role.
The harshest critic of my work is myself. And you would not believe the lengths that sound crews go to to get something listenable to, out of sometimes the most god awful, and even dangerous gear.
Then having struggled with all of this, (after usually) a 10 minute sound check, some pillock comes up and tells you how to do your job. I've said this before but it's a story worth restating.
At a dance (Sat Night at a festival) A drunken morris man came up and said "Can't hear the Bloody Melodeon" I replied "Funnily enough, neither can I.....Maybe it's because it's a Sax lead tune in Bb, and the melodeon player is at the bar having a beer!"
So, if someone implies that I'm crap at my job, then I demand chapter and verse as to why. Sound Crews are always the piggy in the middle fall guys. Damned if we do, damned if we don't...Either by the band (rare) or the audience. (more often)
As I said at the top of this piece, go and look at Jim Morays very apposite cartoon linked above.